Make Your Next Build vs. Buy Decision Like Fight Club
28 May 2025 | Leadership
Imagine this scenario as we explore an effective risk assessment method that was in the exceptional movie Fight Club.
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Superstitions and Piseogs
02 Mar 2024 | Archives
I bet most of you are wondering what the word piseog is and it is pretty tricky to look up. I first encountered it in one of my favorite books, “The Once and Future King” by T.H. White. If you’ve ever watched “The Sword in the Stone” animated movie, you’ve seen the book’s first quarter. It’s a wonderful and tragic telling of the story of King Arthur. I highly recommend it.
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Magic Quadrants in Product Development
28 Dec 2023 | Leadership
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the software world, you bump into what is sometimes called the magic quadrants. You’ll most often see this as an effort/impact activity. I want to share two ways I use this little technique when helping groups begin product development.
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How to Learn What Your Team is Capable of
08 Nov 2023 | Leadership
I recently finished my newsletter series on how I build high-performing software teams, and in that process, I recalled many moments from my career. One of those memories is a big part of my leadership style and what I want to share today.
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Get People on the Same Page in Under a Minute
25 Apr 2022 | Product-management
We often have to explain an idea in a way that gets people to share the same context quickly. Without that shared context, people spend quite a lot of time asking questions to fill in mental gaps instead of working on the issue.
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Getting Started Using the RICE Prioritization Method
10 Jan 2022 | Product-management
Well, it’s 2022, and I took a break from writing for the past few months. It was a mistake, but I’m trying to correct that with this first article of the year.